Day 12: CC Sweden

Melissa Reeder, May 9th, 2007

The end of the campaign is near and we have received phenomenal support from our community. And for that we thank you. We still need to raise $22,460 in the next three days. If 45 people give at the $500 level we will reach our goal. If you’re looking for a unique present for someone then give them the gift of reassurance that the future of the Internet and their digital rights are being protected. Support this campaign in their name and I’ll send them all the swag that comes with the donation and list their name on the website.

Creative Commons Sweden originally began in 2004 but ran into difficulties and stalled. In February 2005 the project was transferred to the University of Göteborg where Mathias Klang (then a PhD student) and Karl Jonsson (then a law student) took over the project.

On 30 November 2005 the licenses were launched and since then Mathias (now Dr Klang at the University of Göteborg) and Karl (now a law clerk at the Court in Malmö) have been actively promoting the licensing through lectures, media articles and fielding questions from the public.

The Creative Commons Sweden project plans to continue its work in promoting the licenses, supporting the development of open access to knowledge by promoting the use of licenses among researchers and to develop a better cooperation between other CC jurisdictions, in particular the Nordic countries.